10 Websites To Make You Think | The Online Learning Blog from Study2U Supposedly browsing the internet requires more brain power than watching television. Although judging from some of the websites we’ve come across that assumption is cast into doubt. Here’s some of the sites we like that might get your brain to sit up and listen. Ted A conference that started in 1984 bringing together experts in technology, entertainment and design quickly grew into so much more. New Scientist The New Scientist website carries new articles from the magazine as well as the NS archive of over 76,000 pieces. Big Think The Big Think website is a collection of ‘global thought leaders’ who offer their thoughts and analysis on world events and other important developments. Café Scientifque ‘for the price of a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, anyone can come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology’ Breathing Earth This fantastic website by David Bleja demonstrates CO2 emissions and world population growth in real time on a global map. Arts & Letters Daily How Stuff Works
Partners - Cosmic Convergence Festival All profit from Cosmic Convergence Festival goes to support local efforts to build stable and resilient communities. JUSTA - Comida Vida Health and Nutrition Program JUSTA has developed a health and nutrition course for the artisans we work with and other local indigenous women and mothers around Lake Atitlan. The course, Comida Vida Tradicional, has the mission to promote health education and nutrition for women, children, and families by offering workshops on physical, mental and emotional nourishment, and to provide natural, sustainable, and accessible alternatives to unhealthy and processed foods that have replaced local and traditional foods in the daily diet of indigenous families in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. Project Nuevo Mundo Project Nuevo Mundo is a forming network of ecovillages, consciousness centers, travelers and volunteers.The platform will be a community interface between the virtual and physical worlds, born in order to facilitate communication and information exchange.
No Distractions, No Deceptions, No Diversions, No Delusions! 10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits How do you take Portraits that have the ‘Wow’ factor? Today and tomorrow I want to talk about taking Portraits that are a little out of the box. You see it’s all very well and good to have a portrait that follows all the rules – but it hit me as I was surfing on Flickr today that often the most striking portraits are those that break all the rules. I want to look at some ways to break out of the mold and take striking portraits by breaking (or at least bending) the rules and adding a little randomness into your portrait photography. 1. Most portraits are taken with the camera at (or around) the eye level of the subject. Get up high and shoot down on your subject or get as close to the ground as you can and shoot up. 2. It is amazing how much the direction of your subject’s eyes can impact an image. A. B. 3. There are a lot of ‘rules’ out there when it comes to composition and I’ve always had a love hate relationship with them. 4. 5. The shots were amazing, surprising and quite funny. 6.
Build a Sustainable HAIAH - Healing Art Installation As Home Multidiciplinary team in Baja California to design and build a sustainable earth home as a platform for healing that can be replicated around the world. 1 in 3 people worldwide will directly experience extreme hunger, preventable disease, and housing shortages within five years! This encroaching reality affects everyone. If we are not building assets that are indispensable to our community and the world, we are building detriments to the community. The HAIAH team is an international tribe of conscious architects, artists, researchers, healers and inventors who are the new breed of awakened leaders in a renaissance of sustainable living. HAIAH Project Scope Secure a plot of raw land as an eco-laboratoryDesign and build a working model of a sustainable homeImplement an innovative selection of wellness solutionsInspire and teach the world to envision what is possible in their back yard Project duration is 6-8 months from the time we receive funds. Organizations and Businesses Ms.
50 Most Influential Books of the Last 50 (or so) Years In compiling the books on this list, the editors at SuperScholar have tried to provide a window into the culture of the last 50 years. Ideally, if you read every book on this list, you will know how we got to where we are today. Not all the books on this list are “great.” The criterion for inclusion was not greatness but INFLUENCE. All the books on this list have been enormously influential. The books we chose required some hard choices. We also tried to keep a balance between books that everyone buys and hardly anyone reads versus books that, though not widely bought and read, are deeply transformative. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 45.
9 Tactics for Rapid Learning (That Most People Have Never Heard Of) Whenever the subject of why some people learn faster comes up, I get a whole host of common answers: Some people are just naturally smart. (Often implying you can’t improve)Everyone is “smart” in their own way. (Nonsense, research indicates different “intelligences” often correlate)IQ is all in the genes. (Except IQ changes with age and IQ tests can be studied for, like any other test) There may be some truth to these claims. Considering the upcoming launch of my rapid learning program, I wanted to share my favorite tactics to learn faster, retain information better or just enjoy the process of learning more: #1 – Pegging (or How Mental Magicians can Perfectly Recall Hundreds of Numbers) One of my favorite learning tactics, that is rarely mentioned, is pegging. The systems I’ve seen typically work with a special cheat sheet. From there, you can translate any series of numbers into a series of letters. Here’s a quick way to separate the rapid learners from the average learners.
:~Gate 13~: 20 : 13 transition | ~:::::Ay Yum Hunab Ku Evam Maya Eh Ma Ho:::::~ Academic Earth | Online Courses | Academic Video Lectures Home | Center for Sacred Studies Born to Learn ~ You are Born to Learn / - World Government of World Citizen - Welcome EMOTO - World Peace Project Emoto Peace Project Emoto´s Peace Project has been declared by Dr. Emoto when he was giving a seminar at The Spiritual Dimensions of Science and Consciousness Subcommittee at United Nation headquarter in NYC on May 25th, 2005. The Peace project goal is to educate the truth of water to children. By distributing children versions of the “Messages from Water” book or other similar books, Children should learn that we reflect our self in water and in our surrounding. An attitude of Love and Gratitude can change us and so the entire world to a sustainable and beautiful place for everybody. Its intended age is from 3 - 12 years old. read more The Messages from Water for Children are distributed or made accessible to children in different ways: - Through reading the books online in the Emoto Foundation web site. - Through free downloads on this web site or web sites of partners and friends. - Through distribution of printet copies by Emoto Foundation itself or through partners. read more
Founders of Our Mother Earth Constitution (& IMAGINE NATION) | Our Mother Earth Constitution | IMAGINE NATION Note: Founding Mothers and Fathers means the first people who had the courage to sign Our Mother Earth Constitution to create The Borderless Land Of Imagine Nation Our Mother Earth Constitution is dedicated to Our Creator as the principle source of inspiration. Life, love, compassion, and wisdom would not be possible without Our Almighty Creator. ), meaning the beginning (“the first”) and the end (“the last”), YaHuWAH (“English transliteration of YHWH from Hebrew, meaning I AM THAT I AM”), the Great Spirit, Grandfather….etc. He is an artist, visionary, think tank and futurist from the Hakka people; he was born in Canada and his parents are from the Hakka people of China. William Commanda OC (November 11, 1913 – August 3, 2011) (Algonquin name: Ojshigkwanàng, normally written Ojigkwanong, meaning “Morning Star”) was an Algonquin elder, spiritual leader, and promoter of environmental stewardship. From 1951 to 1970, Commanda served as Band Chief of the Kitigàn-zìbì Anishinàbeg First Nation.